Hey, I have got the car running pretty solid before, but I had to revert back to stock for CA smog and then put back all the megasquirt parts and I am getting some really weird issues.

Car was idling at 3000rpm, idle screw all the way in.
Adjusting the IAC valve was making the rpm go down and not up.
Got the idle to about 1300rpm by fidling.
Won't get out of idle VE table.
I believe it was the IAC valve was making a horrible ticking noise at anything besides 0 steps in the output test.

Car is stock, 1990 miata, just has headers.
-BMW tps
-Stock ignition and fuel.

I am nearly 100% sure there are no vacuum leaks or issues with anything as the car was running perfectly fine beforehand. But it almost feels like the car has a vacuum leak.

 

is your tps reading correct and accurate?
you should never touch teh idle screw

 

Yes. Idle screw was just me trying to band-aid it..

I re-calibrated it just to be safe, works well.

I believe my issue is in my closed-loop settings.

 

So if I do the IAC valve test, and have a idle PMW of about 58% and stepper count of 140, it seems to idle right at 900rpm and isn't lean or anything, runs right.

So what does this mean?

 

So increasing the idle valve % lowers rpm? If so invert the idle output.

 

either your iacv controls are inverted or you're outside the range and went full circle

 

So i went back and forth between inverted and normal and I thought it was working once, but it went back to acting up with a 1800rpm idle now. I have a weird feeling it is going full circle.

My question, how do I tune this instead of using the iacv test mode? Is it the idle control duty cycle %?

 

Seems to idle great like this capture, but how do i set this in the tune?

 

https://www.diyautotune.com/support/...ng-megasquirt/

 

What are some normal numbers seen for ASE and ASE taper? The car will fire up, die, unless I give it throttle as it fires to bump up the revs to 1.5-2k rpm. Anyway to automatically tune for this?

I've tried reducing cranking pulse width but haven't quite got it yet, any tips?

 

58 PWM% is basically wide open idle valve on a 90-97

 

Okay, so if it is totally open, but my idle is 850rpm, what would that mean?

I've narrowed it down to my closed-loop settings as when I use warmup only, she idles like a champ.

Anybody care to share what settings I should be using>

 

So something I did not know, the 1.6 cars timing mark on the crank pulley is only a TDC mark?

If true, I have been trying to align this TDC to the 10* BTDC mark. Wtf is wrong with me. Ignorance is killer.